Pedro Martinez Quotes
My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid.
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
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I was so horrifically bad at tennis.
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People who think I have insulted Ireland or Limerick or my family have not read the book!
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God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.
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The Righteous Brothers started out in Orange County, California. It was about the whitest place in the country, but the black marines from the nearby base heard there were two guys singing rhythm and blues, so they came down to hear us. At the end of our songs they'd yell out, 'That's righteous, brother!' and that's how we got our name.
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Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.
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My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid.
